Stephen
2006-10-09 |
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1 Million Members (total) |  |
Congrats ! We have 1,000,000 members !
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This is indeed great news for everyone, we have broke over the 1 million total registered members mark. The total registered members includes Unification Wars, Galactic Conquest, Ancient Worlds and 3700AD.
To celebrate this event, we shall be giving out some freebies:
+25 Regalo Artifact
+20% land size to all colonies above 1500 land size
Enjoy :)
Few words from Stephen
Since everyone got a ton of freebies, I hope you will read this runting and grunting , when you have the time (like while waiting for turns). Today is the 1333th day that spacefed (old name for gamestotal.com) has been running. I never did thought much about it, about how long I would be doing this nor that I can envision where we would be today 1333 days ago. I am always too busy fixing stuff and putting up request by players to think about that o_0
Ah, how time has passed eh ? Before I started spacefed I was still a young fella, and my age was still 2x, now after I have started spacefed, my age has moved on to 3x ... an extra digit ! It got me thinking of what I am doing with my life, where I want to go, what I really want in life and all that (yeah when you get an extra digit you start thinking). To tell you the truth, it has been the greatest pleasure to be working on this game for everyone`s enjoyment, to watch it grow. I have no regrets of doing this and to be in this field. I have personally seen many of my office collegues who have previous moved on to software houses because that is where the money is. I can see that they are financially well off. This guy has asked me if i wanted to join him to write ERP, accounts and other corporate software for a living. He ended up with his own company, setting up offices in KL (Malaysia), Singapore and South Korea. I am sure that the first thing that pops up on my other office collegues (not that they mention it in front of me) is that do i regret not going into that field ?
I was previously working on corporate software projects and was in the process of starting up a subsidiary for my company back in year 2001 for my boss (the company i was working in). Sadly due to certain disagreement, well most like certain actions was not taken by the company`s board of directors resulting in the inability of the new company to be started properly, man i hate red tape and big companies. my college was there with me, he left about 1-2 months before i did to start up his own software firm. anyhow that is how it all started.
after that i couldnt get a proper job for years, even until today. the dot-com burst does contribute a lot to it, seeing a great reduction in it expendature therefore less hiring of it staff. this collegue of mine did went through a lot of hard times, as it was really bad during those days. i guess if you are able to stick through the down time, he should have a solid foundation when the time does improves.
sorry got side tracked back there. anyhow back to the original grunting. now do i regret it ? if i were given a chance to go back to make the choices again, what would i choose ? i guess i would still choose the same, to do spacefed. there still isnt any air conditioning here, and the work condition here (where i am right now, and where i work most of the time) is still pretty bad compared to the nice offices that software houses has eh ? there is less customers, usually software houses only liase with 1-2 representatives, compared to handling thousands of players in spacefed. the more i think about it, the more insane everyone will think i am to continue working on spacefed right ?
in life there is more than just climbing corporate ladder, running the rat race, working in a superbly nice office with a nice view with a bunch of sexy female workers or secretaries wearing micro-mini skirts. strangely i do love and enjoy working on the game, call me weird o_0 although there are many times i do day dream about the sexy female workers... (not that i have much time to day dream) ... i am not saying that i gave up all that for you players out there ... well part of it (does it make you feel bad that you want to donate ? o_0 ) ... it is also something i enjoy doing, watching tons of people having fun killing each other :) maybe i am just an evil person eh ?
so now you know a bit about me, and how each and every one of you, the players have touched and changed my very life. i hope that the game we have been working on have helped you out by making your life more meaningful and fun, no matter how small it may seem it is sufficient for each and everyone of us in spacefed. i and on behalf of all the admins, guides and staff here would like to thank you for making our life interesting and fun :)
Edited by Stephen on 2006-10-09 |
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guardians
99+ day(s) ago | so how many members does spacefed imean gamestotal.com have now stephen i am think close to 2 mill or more |
Apollo
99+ day(s) ago | Nowhere near 250k pay Pern, I million members does not mean 1 million active members, and it certainly does not mean that a fourth pay...
There is probably 250k active members between both games, if that, and out of them, maybe a tenth pay... Then you look at that total, and the overhead involved, and the money stephen needs to support the game on the interenet, advertisement, staff, servers upkeep, IP costs, and not to mention putting food on his table, there is not really a ton of profit involved... |
Pern
99+ day(s) ago | out of 1 mil members how many pay? 250 thou x 5...is..still over one mil per month
oohh 25k.x5?? always begging is sadd and sounds like a conartist |
Ansem
99+ day(s) ago | looks like this was cleaned out too. well stephen needs to fix that |
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